Kamailio Admin Book

Status: writing the content of the book was finished in January 2015, followed by a language review, which was completed several months later. The book is now available as PDF file, small adjustments and corrections may be provided over the time. There is no near future timeline set for a paper printed version.

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About the book: the book is in English, written in standard A4 format, to allow straightforward self-printing in original format or making booklets with two pages per side. Also, long configuration lines in examples are easier to read. The technical details are:

page size A4

text font 12px

examples font 10px or 11px

colorful content (titles, diagrams, screenshots)

The book has over 320 pages, excluding the cover page and table of content. You can see the current table of the content at:

Shortly, there are 26 chapters written, containing a short overview of SIP, approaching the architecture of Kamailio, configuration file structure, presentation of default configuration file and several common use cases such as authentication, authorization, accounting, registration and location services, NAT traversal. Special chapters are dedicated to troubleshooting and security when deploying VoIP platforms using Kamailio.

Kamailio is a framework for building real time communication platform, the first edition of the book is not presenting in details many of its typical use cases, but it has a chapter that collects references on how to do it. Future editions will include new detailed chapters for such use cases.

Kamailio version used for the examples in the book: 4.2.x. The content is still relevant for Kamailio series: 4.3.x, 4.4.x, 5.0.x and 5.1.x.

Future Editions: Asipto and the authors will provide periodically updates about the book. Watch our web site for news or follow us on twitter at @asipto and Daniel-Constantin Mierla at @miconda.

We hope the book will be useful for many of you and will speed up understanding how to use Kamailio!